Ravyn

#2,639 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Ravyn has been given to 2,668 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #2,639 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 133 recorded.

Babies named Ravyn, 2025

1 in 50,200

Ravyn over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ravyn: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ravyn means

Ravyn is a given name.

The naming story behind Ravyn

Wikidata records Ravyn as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q133796903, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,649 girls were recorded with the name Ravyn between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 133 in 2002; its best national rank was #1,441 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,815 in 2020 to #2,639 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,547 in 2015 to #2,639 in 2025.

In the United States, 19 boys were recorded with the name Ravyn between 1998 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1998; its best national rank was #6,710 in 1998.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Ravyn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 50,200
66 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,639
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
34,818 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ravyn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 34,818 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ravyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ravyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ravyn was born before 2005 — so the typical Ravyn is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,649
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (802).

Is Ravyn rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−184
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+176
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−92
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.93×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
49.6%
Peak was 2002 (133)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,441
2002

Spellings of Ravyn

Ravyn is not the most common spelling — Robyn is, with 18.0% against Ravyn's 0.75%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ravyn is used

Across 2016–2025, Ravyn was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 48,542 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 12,500
  2. 2Florida1 in 33,333
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 33,333
  4. 4Maryland1 in 33,333
  5. 5Michigan1 in 33,333
  6. 6Texas1 in 33,333
  7. 7Georgia1 in 50,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Ravyn around the world

Where Ravyn ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2018–2018
    #3,985
    in 2018
  • Canada
    2005–2020
    #2,355
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Ravyn

People whose public names include Ravyn, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ravyn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,639
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 176
Best rank ever
#1,441
2002
Peak year
2002
133 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,649
Count in 2025
66

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,710
1998
Peak year
1998
9 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
19
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ravyn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Names with a curve like Ravyn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ravyn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

Sibling names for Ravyn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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